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I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you;
Look, every life belongs to Me.
The hand of the Lord was on me,
The person who sins is the one who will die.
Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, plenty of food,
“Son of man, lament
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
I will execute great vengeance against them with furious rebukes. They will know that I am Yahweh
Tell them: As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live.
The form of four living creatures came from it.
But you may ask, ‘Why doesn’t the son suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity?’
They had human hands under their wings on their four sides.
You also took your beautiful jewelry made from the gold and silver I had given you,
Their wings were touching. The creatures did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.
Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, sparkling like the gleam of polished bronze.
That is what their faces were like. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching that of another and two wings covering its body.
The form of each of their faces was that of a man,
Then He said to me: “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak My words to them.
So when the living creatures moved,
Wherever the Spirit
When I looked at the living creatures, there was one wheel on the ground beside each creature that had four faces.
The form of the living creatures was like the appearance of burning coals of fire and torches.
Each creature went straight ahead.
“But the children rebelled against Me.
When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings like the roar of mighty waters,
When they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.
When the creatures moved, the wheels moved; when the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still; and when the creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose alongside them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
The appearance of the brilliant light all around was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day.
For I have assigned you the years of their iniquity according to the number of days you lie down, 390 days; so you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
A voice came from above the expanse over their heads; when they stood still, they lowered their wings.
The appearance of the wheels
Their rims were large and frightening. Each of their four rims were full of eyes
The word of the Lord came to me:
The shape of an expanse,
Then you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set My oil and incense before them.
He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to
But as for Me, I will not show pity or spare them.
But she has rebelled against My ordinances with more wickedness than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that surround her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.
The shape of a throne with the appearance of sapphire
so you will know that I am Yahweh, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not practiced. Instead, you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
And under the expanse their wings extended one toward another. Each of them also had two wings covering their bodies.
I will tear down the wall you plastered with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed.
Then the man clothed in linen with the writing equipment at his side reported back, “I have done as You commanded me.”
He said to me, “Go in and see the terrible and detestable things they are committing here.”
I will exhaust My anger against you
and judge you according to your ways.
I will punish you for all your detestable practices.
He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. He did all these things even though he gave his hand in pledge.
“This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them:
For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or difficult language but to the house of Israel.
“If I allow dangerous animals
But I withheld My hand and acted because of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I brought them out.
But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he will not see it,
From what seemed to be His waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire enclosing it all around.
I went in and looked, and there engraved all around the wall was every form of detestable thing, crawling creatures and beasts, as well as all the idols of the house of Israel.
After I exhaust My wrath against the wall and against those who plaster it with whitewash, I will say to you: The wall is no more and neither are those who plastered it—
When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions,
“Son of man, say to her: You are a land that has not been cleansed,
“‘Son of man, know that on the day I take their stronghold from them, their pride and joy, the delight of their eyes and the longing of their hearts, as well as their sons and daughters,
“Now if the wicked person turns from all the sins he has committed,
“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because you have been more insubordinate than the nations around you
Now while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died.
You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.
Be aware that I will put cords on you so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.
They will come against you with an alliance of nations and with weapons, chariots, and
The children are obstinate
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I will punish you for your ways
and for your detestable practices within you.
Then you will know
that it is I, Yahweh, who strikes.
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “As I live, I will bring down on his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.
Seventy elders from the house of Israel were standing before them, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan
But the house of Israel will not want to listen to you because they do not want to listen to Me.
You are not being sent to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. No doubt, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.
Whether they listen or refuse to listen
Then all people will see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it.
You slaughtered My children and gave them up when you passed them through the fire
I will also scatter all the attendants who surround him and all his troops to every direction of the wind,
The word of the Lord came to me again:
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked?”
“But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words,
those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace.”
Doom has gone out.
The rod has blossomed;
arrogance has bloomed.
therefore, this is what the Lord God says: See, I am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments within you in the sight of the nations.
“Therefore say: This is what the Lord God says: Though I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them
Their entire bodies,
Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the pilasters of the portico; they were 8¾ feet
even if these three men were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
You also set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I gave you—the fine flour, oil, and honey that I fed you.
“Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword.
Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
“Now, son of man, turn
I will spread My net over him,
I have made your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them or discouraged by the look on their faces, even though they are a rebellious house.”
“Son of man, your own relatives, those who have the right to redeem you,
None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him.
and say: This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the women who sew magic bands on the wrist of every hand and who make veils for the heads of people of every height in order to ensnare lives. Will you ensnare the lives of My people but preserve your own?
In all your detestable practices and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth
“You even took your sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them to these images as food.
They will know that I am Yahweh
“Therefore say: This is what the Lord God says: I will gather you from the peoples
But speak My words to them whether they listen or refuse to listen,
So He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Lord’s house, and I saw women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.
This is what the Lord God says:
from the lofty top of the cedar and plant it.
I will pluck a tender sprig
from its topmost shoots,
and I will plant it
on a high towering mountain.
None of them will remain:
none of their multitude,
none of their wealth,
and none of the eminent
disembark from their ships.
The sailors and all the captains of the sea
stand on the shore.
However, I swore
Next He said to me: “Son of man, listen carefully to all My words that I speak to you and take them to heart.
Because of all your detestable practices, I will do to you what I have never done before and what I will never do again.
Go to your people, the exiles, and speak to them. Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”
Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his idol? For they are saying, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has abandoned the land.’”
If I say to the wicked person,
The Spirit then lifted me up,
When He unrolled it before me, it was written on the front and back; words of lamentation, mourning, and woe were written on it.
But I will spare a few of them from the sword,
“And you, son of man, listen to what I tell you: Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”
Her priests do violence to My instruction and profane My holy things.
As a result, fathers will eat their sons
Each one had four faces:
Again He said to me, “You will see even more detestable things, which they are committing.”
Let the buyer not rejoice
and the seller not mourn,
for wrath is on all her masses.
When they made every firstborn pass through the fire,
But if a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.
The word of the Lord came to me:
There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering,
even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their son or daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.
Then your survivors will remember Me among the nations where they are taken captive,
that I am Yahweh.
I bring down the tall tree,
and make the low tree tall.
I cause the green tree to wither
and make the withered tree thrive.
I, Yahweh, have spoken
and I will do it.
So I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me,
“When they arrive there, they will remove all its
“How your heart was inflamed with lust”—the declaration of the Lord God—“when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,
He said to me: “Son of man, eat what you find here. Eat this scroll,
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I left in bitterness and in an angry spirit, and the Lord’s hand was on me powerfully.
You built your elevated place at the head of every street
“Therefore, as I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“I am going to cut you off and show you no pity, because you have defiled My sanctuary
When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when they lifted their wings to rise from the earth, even then the wheels did not veer away from them.
The cherubim ascended; these were the living creatures I had seen by the Chebar Canal.
But as for those whose hearts pursue their desire for detestable things and practices, I will bring their actions down on their own heads.”
Then I looked, and there above the expanse over the heads
“But you say, ‘The Lord’s way isn’t fair.’
The Spirit lifted me up
There were three-inch
so they may follow My statutes,
It will seem like false divination in the eyes of those who have sworn an oath to the Babylonians,
These were the living creatures I had seen
Then say to the people of the land: This is what the Lord God says about the residents of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their
Now if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity,
with the
I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were living by the Chebar Canal, and I sat there among them stunned for seven days.
Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors.
“Now you, son of man, take a brick, set it in front of you, and draw the city of Jerusalem on it.
mourning over you:
Who was like Tyre,
silenced
When I brought them into the land that I swore
The Spirit then lifted me up
You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.”
But if you warn a wicked person and he does not turn from his wickedness or his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.
So He brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house, and there were about 25 men at the entrance of the Lord’s temple, between the portico and the altar,
When the cherubim stood still,
The food you eat each day will be eight ounces
And He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the detestable things they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence
You will all know that I am Yahweh when their slain lie among their idols around their altars,
you satisfied many peoples.
You enriched the kings of the earth
with your abundant wealth and goods.
The glory of the Lord
Again the word of the Lord came to me:
“Son of man, you are living among a rebellious house.
A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you;
“Son of man, what is this proverb you people have about the land of Israel,
and every vision fails?
“Son of man, eat your bread with
I will send famine and dangerous animals against you. They will leave you childless, Jerusalem. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, Yahweh, have spoken.”
I will lead you into the wilderness of the peoples
As He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet,
Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, lifted their wings,
and prepared everything,
but no one goes to war,
for My wrath is on all her masses.
You are also to drink water by measure, a sixth of a gallon,
Therefore say to them: This is what the Lord God says: I will put a stop to this proverb, and they will not use it again in Israel.
“Therefore say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: Are you defiling yourselves the way your fathers did,
For there will no longer be any false vision or flattering divination
There you will remember your ways and all your deeds that you have defiled yourselves with,
Then the Spirit of the Lord came on me, and He told me, “You are to say: This is what the Lord says: That is what you are thinking, house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your mind.
And He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see even more detestable things than these.”
You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
“I will make you pass under the rod
So I got up and went out to the plain. The Lord’s glory was present there,
“Or if I bring a sword
Then the hand of the Lord was on me there, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain,
I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people from your hands,
So the ruined cities will be filled with a flock of people, just as the flock of sheep for sacrifice
And they will know that I am the Lord; I did not threaten to bring this disaster on them without a reason.
The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
The word of the Lord came to me:
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean.
But I, Yahweh, will speak whatever message I will speak, and it will be done.
So I have poured out My indignation on them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their actions down on their own heads.”
In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting in front of me,
“This is what the Lord God says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet,
to what was sold
as long as he and the buyer remain alive.
For the vision concerning all its people
will not be revoked,
and none of them will preserve
his life because of his iniquity.
Therefore I will respond with wrath.
For they did not practice My ordinances but rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed
The word of the Lord came to me:
“Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity
But if you warn the righteous person that he should not sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he listened to your warning, and you will have saved your life.”
The sound of the cherubim’s wings could be heard as far as the outer court; it was like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.
The Lord spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with hot coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.”
So you
But I said, “Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts.
“Son of man, get your bags ready for exile and go into exile in their sight during the day. You will go into exile from your place to another place while they watch; perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.
When My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath on them, I will be appeased.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat
The Lord said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their bread—ceremonially unclean—among the nations where I will banish them.”
Because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies, even though I have not caused him grief,
Then the glory of the Lord moved away from the threshold of the temple
Their faces looked like the same faces I had seen
Therefore say to them: This is what the Lord God says: None of My words will be delayed any longer. The message I speak will be fulfilled.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
The city will not be a pot for you,
But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth,
The cherubim lifted their wings and ascended from the earth right before my eyes;
But when a righteous person turns from his righteousness
He stretched out what appeared to be a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God
therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination.
I looked, and there were four wheels beside the cherubim,
“Son of man, notice that the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees concerns many years from now;
“I will bring you out of the city and hand you over to foreigners; I will execute judgments against you.
So you were the opposite of other women in your acts of prostitution; no one solicited you. When you paid a fee instead of one being paid to you, you were the opposite.
Each had four faces and each had four wings,
Every kind of precious stone covered you:
carnelian, topaz, and diamond,
beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire,
Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold;
they were prepared on the day you were created.
mock
you have become an object of horror
and will never exist again.”
building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square. But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment.
You will fall by the sword,
They will bring a mob against you
The prince who is among
Now the cherubim were standing to the south of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud
The Spirit entered me and set me on my feet.
Then the glory of the Lord rose from above the cherub to the threshold of the temple.
“Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword,
They are saying, ‘Isn’t the time near to build houses?
After the Lord commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from inside the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.
Say to them: This is what the Lord God says: This oracle is about the prince
and their gold will seem like something filthy.
Their silver and gold will be unable to save them
in the day of the Lord’s wrath.
They will not satisfy their appetites
or fill their stomachs,
for these were the stumbling blocks
that brought about their iniquity.
The Lord said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plan evil
plague and famine are on the inside.
Whoever is in the field will die by the sword,
and famine and plague will devour
whoever is in the city.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem.
I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth,
And you, son of man, they will put ropes on you
When I vent My jealous rage on you,
The conspiracy of her prophets
And while they look on, lift the bags to your shoulder and take them out in the dark; cover your face so that you cannot see the land. For I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.”
When I shoot deadly arrows of famine at them, arrows for destruction that I will send to destroy you, inhabitants of Jerusalem, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of bread.
The one who is far off will die by plague; the one who is near will fall by the sword; and the one who remains and is spared
So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.
You are to say, ‘I am a sign for you. Just as I have done, so it will be done to them; they will go into exile,
You have multiplied your slain in this city,
and all their knees will turn to water.
I will stretch out My hand against them,
“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: The slain you have put within it are the meat,
and live on the mountains
like doves of the valley,
all of them moaning,
each over his own iniquity.
And I will give them one heart
During the day, bring out your bags like an exile’s bags while they look on. Then in the evening go out in their sight like those going into exile.
On that day your mouth will be opened to talk with him; you will speak and no longer be mute.
but
their detestable things.
Therefore, I have made these
into something filthy for them.
“This is what the Lord God says: I have set this Jerusalem in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
So I did just as I was commanded. In the daytime I brought out my bags like an exile’s bags. In the evening I dug through the wall by hand; I took them out in the dark, carrying them on my shoulder in their sight.
As they watch, dig through the wall and take the bags out through it.
Then the cherub reached out his hand to the fire that was among them. He took some, and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
Then lay siege against it:
You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “So repent and live!
and horror will overwhelm them.
Shame will cover all their faces,
and all their heads will be bald.
Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt,
You fear the sword,
“Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, that rebellious house,
“I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.
He replied to me, “Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that.”
Take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign for the house of Israel.
I looked, and there was a form that had the appearance of a man.
I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances
Then He called to me directly with a loud voice, “Come near, executioners of the city, each of you with a destructive weapon in his hand.”
You are to burn up a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended;
“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel:
on the four corners of the land.
to foreigners as plunder
and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,
and they will profane them.
The Lord said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” I looked to the north, and there was this offensive statue north of the altar gate, at the entrance.
for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed,
and the city is filled with violence.
I saw the glory of the God of Israel
So there were four tables inside the gate and four outside, eight tables in all on which the slaughtering was to be done.
And the word of the Lord came to me:
Then He brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked there was a hole in the wall.
He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing here, more detestable things that the house of Israel is committing,
as they profane My treasured place.
Violent men will enter it and profane it.
Throw off all the transgressions you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit.
the prince will be clothed in grief;
and the hands of the people of the land will tremble.
I will deal with them according to their own conduct,
and I will judge them by their own standards.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
to take possession of their houses.
I will put an end to the pride of the strong,
and their sacred places will be profaned.
“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your actions, since you have done this, you will be captured by them.
Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple and there was water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the temple faced east. The water was coming down from under the south side of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar.
inhabitants of the land.
The time has come; the day is near.
There will be panic on the mountains
and not celebration.
but I will punish you for your ways
and for your detestable practices within you.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
I looked and there was a whirlwind
“Son of man, turn your face toward the mountains of Israel
He spoke as I listened to the others, “Pass through the city after him and start killing; do not show pity or spare them!
and there will be rumor after rumor.
Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,
but instruction will perish from the priests
and counsel from the elders.
Your altars will be desolated and your incense altars smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate,
But you are to take a few strands from the hair and secure them in the folds of your robe.
He said to me, “Son of man, dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall, and there was a doorway.
Take some more of them, throw them into the fire, and burn them in it.
for
You were on the holy mountain of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated,
The word of the Lord came to me:
“For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
I will send My anger against you
and judge you according to your ways.
I will punish you for all your detestable practices.
I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.
even if these three men
I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall
In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, while I was among the exiles by the Chebar Canal,
The word of the Lord came to me:
Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the older women and little children,
the day has come
for your punishment.”
Then the glory of the God of Israel
even if these three men were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their sons or daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
I will appoint over them a single shepherd, My servant David, and he will shepherd them. He will tend them himself and will be their shepherd.
When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.
He answered me: “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of bloodshed,
It has awakened against you.
Look, it is coming!
and lusted after their lovers, whose sexual members were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord God!
All kinds of trees providing food will grow along both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail.
“Son of man, turn your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog,
tell them: This is what the Lord God says: I am going to take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone.
“For this is what the Lord God says: See, I Myself will search for My flock and look for them.
So I will put an end to your indecency and sexual immorality, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not look longingly at them or remember Egypt anymore.
All the fugitives
The word of the Lord came to me:
Her prophets plaster with whitewash for them by seeing false visions and lying divinations,
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman over the house of Israel.
“For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send My four
This is what the Lord God says:
Things will not remain as they are;
exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.
“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them: This is what the Lord God says: In this way also your fathers blasphemed Me by
You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution
The word of the Lord came to me:
“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:
and you have said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of gods
in the heart of the sea.’
Yet you are a man and not a god,
though you have regarded your heart
as that of a god.
As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“I will rule over you with a strong hand, an outstretched arm,
so that it may bear branches, produce fruit,
and become a majestic cedar.
Birds of every kind will nest under it,
taking shelter in the shade of its branches.
I also gave them My Sabbaths to serve as a sign between Me and them,
Vedan
So you extended your prostitution to Chaldea,
“Therefore, say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: It is not for your sake that I will act,
My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them.
The word of the Lord came to me:
“When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of other countries, worshiping wood and stone,’
“Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of My garment over you and covered your nakedness.
“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am against your magic bands that you ensnare people with like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. I will free the people you have ensnared like birds.
Then He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain.
I will place My Spirit within you
“Or if I send a plague into that land
“Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.
When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has practiced.
“Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each one of you according to his ways.”
The word of the Lord came to me:
I will make it a ruin!
Yet this will not happen
until He comes;
I have given the judgment to Him.
“As for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel.
“Therefore, I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your provisions. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the Philistine women,
The perimeter of the city will be six miles,
“Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,” the Lord said to him, “and put a mark on the foreheads
you were blameless in your ways
until wickedness was found in you.
“Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. Put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the number of days you lie on your side, 390 days.
In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, some of Israel’s elders came to consult the Lord,
the word of the Lord came
Even so, there will be survivors left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. Indeed, they will come out to you, and you will observe their conduct and actions.
and cry out bitterly.
They throw dust on their heads;
they roll in ashes.
I will make a covenant of peace with them;
“For this is what the Lord God says: I am going to hand you over to those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust.
However, if the watchman sees the sword coming but doesn’t blow the trumpet, so that the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes and takes away their lives, then they have been taken away because of their iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.
“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and say to them: This is what the Lord God says to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who have been feeding themselves!
The word of the Lord came to me:
They will treat you with hatred, take all you have worked for, and leave you stark naked,
Next he measured the court. It was square, 175 feet
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been captured,
As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born,
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery.
After a long time you will be summoned. In the last years you will enter a land that has been restored from war
“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel:
and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
You profane Me in front of My people for handfuls of barley
“I passed by you and saw you lying in your blood, and I said to you as you lay in your blood: Live! Yes, I said to you as you lay in your blood: Live!
They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done what I did to it.”
“Since they have led My people astray saying, ‘Peace,’
I will honor the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am Yahweh”—the declaration of the Lord God—“when I demonstrate My holiness through you in their sight.
“As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“your sister Sodom and her daughters have not behaved as you and your daughters have.
He will certainly live because he thought it over and turned from all the transgressions he had committed; he will not die.
But the house of Israel says, ‘The Lord’s way isn’t fair.’ Is it My ways that are unfair, house of Israel? Instead, isn’t it your ways that are unfair?
“As for you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of
you were filled with violence, and you sinned.
So I expelled you in disgrace
from the mountain of God,
and banished you, guardian cherub,
from among the fiery stones.
The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month:
I will blow the fire of My fury on you.
I will hand you over to brutal men,
skilled at destruction.
“I will make a covenant of peace
“But the Levitical priests descended from Zadok,
Keep My Sabbaths holy,
I will bring you from the peoples and gather you from the countries where you were scattered,
For on My holy mountain, Israel’s high mountain”—the declaration of the Lord God—“there the entire house of Israel, all of them,
“Now as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel: You have said this, ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy on us, and we are wasting away because of them!
For the sake of your splendor
you corrupted your wisdom.
So I threw you down to the earth;
I made you a spectacle before kings.
So I asked them: What is this high place you are going to? And it is called High Place to this day.
The word of the Lord came to me again:
by the magnitude of your iniquities
in your dishonest trade.
So I made fire come from within you,
and it consumed you.
I reduced you to ashes on the ground
in the sight of everyone watching you.
“Son of man, take a single stick and write on it:
Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, there were chambers for the singers:
Then the man said to me: “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple.
The word of the Lord came to me:
He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath,
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel.
So My people come to you in crowds,
Therefore, prophesy and say to them: This is what the Lord God says: I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them,
Speak to him and say: This is what the Lord God says:
the great monster
who says, ‘My Nile is my own;
I made it for myself.’
I will cover the heavens
and darken their stars.
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon will not give its light.
“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and have put sinful stumbling blocks before their faces.
The word of the Lord came to me:
“Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
For the king of Babylon stands at the split in the road, at the fork of the two roads, to practice divination: he shakes the arrows, consults the idols, and observes the liver.
“This is what the Lord God says: The gate of the inner court that faces east must be closed during the six days of work, but it will be opened on the Sabbath day
“I will seek the lost,
Then you engaged in prostitution with the Assyrian men because you were not satisfied.
You are to say: This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
If I say to the wicked, ‘Wicked one, you will surely die,’
You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of open villages; I will come against a tranquil people who are living securely,
The man then brought me back toward the sanctuary’s outer gate that faced east, and it was closed.
Your blood will be spilled in the land.
You will not be remembered,
for I, Yahweh, have spoken.”
“Now prophesy, son of man, and say: This is what the Lord God says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt. You are to proclaim:
is drawn for slaughter,
polished to consume,
in the depths of the waters;
your goods and the people within you
have gone down.
“Tarshish
He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet,
This is what the Lord God says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness exposed by your acts of prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children that you gave to them,
I will make them one nation in the land,
This is what the Lord God says:
which is deep and wide.
You will be an object of
for it holds so much.
You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
“Now suppose he has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, and though he sees them, he does not do likewise.
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
When you offer your gifts, making your children pass through the fire,
Now on that day, the day when Gog comes against the land of Israel”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“My wrath will flare up.
So I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
Sheba
I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrential rain, hailstones, fire, and brimstone on him, as well as his troops and the many peoples who are with him.
“But you were confident in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame.
This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.
“So this is what the Lord God says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob
The word of the Lord came to me:
You are to say: This is what the Lord God says:
and full plumage of many colors
came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.
You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the last days, Gog, that I will bring you against My land so that the nations may know Me, when I show Myself holy through you in their sight.
and I saw the glory of the God of Israel
and wrap themselves in sackcloth.
They weep over you
with deep anguish and bitter mourning.
“Then the inhabitants of Israel’s cities will go out, kindle fires, and burn the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them to make fires.
They must teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and explain to them the difference between the clean and the unclean.
This is what the Lord God says: “Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah
People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.
Your older sister was Samaria,
“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: Tell every kind of bird and all the wild animals: Assemble and come! Gather from all around to My sacrificial feast that I am slaughtering for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel;
In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
who acted like prostitutes in Egypt,
therefore this is what the Lord God says: See, I am against you, Tyre!
“Look, everyone who uses proverbs will say this proverb about you:
As a shepherd looks for his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered
“I will send fire against Magog
He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and say to them: Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!
For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; they have committed adultery with their idols. They have even made the children they bore to Me pass through the fire as food for the idols.
Every kind of living creature that swarms will live wherever the river flows,
I clothed you in embroidered cloth and provided you with leather sandals. I also wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech
In the eleventh year,
The upper chambers were narrower because the galleries took away more space from them than from the lower and middle stories of the building.
Then I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them—the person who does them will live by them.
“Son of man, lament
but
You thrash about in your rivers,
churn up the waters with your feet,
and muddy the
“In addition, they sent for men who came from far away when a messenger was dispatched to them. And look how they came! You bathed, painted your eyes,
This is what the Lord God says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.
They also did this to Me: they defiled My sanctuary
Then He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I replied, “Lord God, only You know.”
The chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok,
“As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel,
When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die on account of this.
“But if the prophet is deceived and speaks a message, it was I, Yahweh, who deceived that prophet.
and say: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
“This is what the Lord God says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
in the place where you were created,
in the land of your origin.
“Now on that day I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel—the Valley of the Travelers
You did not go up to the gaps
They see false visions and speak lying divinations.
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost.
I will make them and the area around My hill
The older one was named Oholah,
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of bread,
“This is what the Lord God says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be rebuilt.
My dwelling place will be with them;
As I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“you will no longer use this proverb in Israel.
“Now these are the names of the tribes:
And I will also purge you of those who rebel and transgress against Me.
Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your business
“Therefore, say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: Repent and turn away
“Now, son of man, say to your people: The righteousness of the righteous person will not save him on the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked person cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. The righteous person won’t be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.
Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They exchanged wheat from Minnith,
“Son of man, speak with the elders of Israel and tell them: This is what the Lord God says: Are you coming to consult Me? As I live, I will not be consulted by you.”
“As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.
“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who
“Now, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One person speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear what the message is that comes from the Lord!’
When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name,
I will establish for them a place renowned for its agriculture,
“You, mountains of Israel, will produce your branches
For this is what the Lord God says: “See, I am about to bring King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, king of kings,
They will not defile themselves anymore with their idols,
When I tell the righteous person that he will surely live, but he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteousness will be remembered, and he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws,
with beautiful branches and shady foliage
and of lofty height.
Its top was among the clouds.
I also said to them: Each of you must throw away the detestable things that are before your eyes and not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt.
with a cup of devastation and desolation,
the cup of your sister Samaria.
I made you thrive
“Now suppose the man has a violent son, who sheds blood
This is what the Lord God says: “This is
“I washed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.
“They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob,
“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am against you because you have spoken falsely and had lying visions.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
and lends at interest or for profit, will he live? He will not live! Since he has committed all these detestable acts, he will certainly die. His blood will be on him.
“Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.
But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
When you brought in foreigners,
Then the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the festivals, New Moons, and Sabbaths—for all the appointed times of the house of Israel—will be the prince’s responsibility. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
The word of the Lord came to me:
I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel.”
Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt
I will judge you the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged.
Gomer
therefore, tell those who plaster it that it will fall. Torrential rain will come,
“Then I said to their children in the wilderness: Don’t follow the statutes of your fathers, defile yourselves with their idols, or keep their ordinances.
Then the Lord said to me: “Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah?
I will display My greatness and holiness, and will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations.
therefore this is what the Lord God says: I am about to stretch out My hand against the Philistines,
For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in Israel separates himself from Me, setting up idols in his heart and putting a sinful stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me,
“But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness.
“These are the measurements of the altar
“Son of man, pose a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel.
He brought me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze,
“Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: This is what the Lord God says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely,
I am therefore going to gather all the lovers you pleased
But I acted because of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
planted by the water;
it was fruitful and full of branches
because of plentiful waters.
Cherubim and palm trees were carved on the doors of the great hall like those carved on the walls. There was a wooden canopy
But if you warn a wicked person to turn from his way and he doesn’t turn from it, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.
Say to them: This is what the Lord God says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath
These things will be done to you because you acted like a prostitute with the nations,
I swear in My zeal and fiery rage:
“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor strenuously against Tyre.
“This is what the Lord God says: When I gather the house of Israel
I will put My Spirit in you,
The merchants of Sheba
I will turn you around, drive you on,
“So when I tell the wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but he repents of his sin and does what is just and right—
It is coming, and I will do it!
I will not refrain, I will not show pity,
and I will not relent.
I
according to your ways and deeds.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
The word of the Lord came to me:
He doesn’t oppress anyone
He does not eat at the mountain shrines
“They may not shave their heads
And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile on account of their iniquity, because they dealt unfaithfully with Me.
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
He doesn’t lend at interest or for profit
Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor,
and say to the forest there: Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God says: I am about to ignite a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The blazing flame will not be extinguished, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.
from the middle of Sheol
about him
They have come down;
the uncircumcised lie
slain by the sword.
“For this is what the Lord God says: I will deal with you according to what you have done, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
“When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance,
He said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down to the Arabah. When it enters the sea, the sea of foul water,
“This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far,
So I prophesied as I had been commanded. While I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.
“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land select a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,
“Therefore, speak to them and tell them: This is what the Lord God says: When anyone from the house of Israel sets up idols in his heart, puts a sinful stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I, Yahweh, will answer him appropriately.
Fishermen will stand beside it from En-gedi to En-eglaim.
Now there was a wall surrounding the outside of the temple.
“I will display My glory among the nations,
“Son of man, write down today’s date, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.
So you were adorned with gold and silver,
“This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in My burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom,
This is what the Lord God says: “Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with deep contempt,
They made your deck of cypress wood
from the coasts of Cyprus,
inlaid with ivory.
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me.
“The Lord God says to you, My flock: I am going to judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and male goats.
Say to the Ammonites: Hear the word of the Lord God: This is what the Lord God says: Because you said, ‘Good!’
They will bear their punishment—the punishment of the one who inquires will be the same as that of the prophet—
in order to seize spoil and carry off plunder,
“This is what the Lord God says: Summon
Father and mother are treated with contempt,
Now speak a parable
put it on,
and then pour water into it!
“Son of man, I am about to take the delight of your eyes
“Oholah acted like a prostitute even though she was Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians:
In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”
“But they rebelled against Me and were unwilling to listen to Me. None of them threw away the detestable things that were before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them,
But she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall,
Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden.
I put a ring in your nose,
In visions of God
and come from your place in the remotest parts of the north
You are to say: This is what the Lord God says:
and I will display My glory within you.
They will know that I am Yahweh
when I execute judgments against her
and demonstrate My holiness through her.
You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!
No one cared enough about you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. But you were thrown out into the open field because you were despised on the day you were born.
As I looked, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
and say to it: This is what the Lord says: I am against you.
I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I threw it down to Sheol to be with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden,
Haran, Canneh, Eden,
“Now her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was even more depraved in her lust than Oholah, and made her promiscuous acts worse than those of her sister.
The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, every creature that crawls on the ground, and every human being on the face of the earth will tremble before Me. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs will collapse, and every wall will fall to the ground.
a day belonging to the Lord is near.
It will be a day of clouds,
a time of doom for the nations.
He keeps his hand from harming the poor, not taking interest or profit on a loan. He practices My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a person will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will certainly live.
with pine trees from Senir.
They took a cedar from Lebanon
to make a mast for you.
Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who strayed from Me after their idols,
and lying divinations about you,
the time has come to put you
to the necks of the profane wicked ones;
the day has come
for your punishment.
therefore, I am against you and your Nile. I will turn the land of Egypt into ruins, a desolate waste from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.
So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your nipples to enjoy your youthful breasts.
“Son of man, while the house of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions.
are appalled
Their kings shudder with fear;
their faces are contorted.
were your rowers.
Your wise men were within you, Tyre;
they were your captains.
“In a dispute, they will officiate as judges and decide the case according to My ordinances.
Because you did not remember the days
So I will satisfy My wrath against you,
“Therefore Oholibah, this is what the Lord God says: I am going to incite your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from every side:
Aram
Men of Dedan
I adorned you with jewelry, putting bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.
Say to Tyre, who is located at the entrance of the sea, merchant of the peoples
‘I am perfect in beauty.’
“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to celebrate the Passover, a festival of seven days during which unleavened bread will be eaten.
“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations.
tell them: This is what the Lord God says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick so that they become one in My hand.
Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the pilasters;
“Now say to that rebellious house:
with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised,
who went down to Sheol
with their weapons of war,
whose swords were placed under their heads.
The punishment for their sins
rested on their bones,
although the terror of these warriors
was once in the land of the living.
then I will bring you down to be with those who descend to the Pit,
Then the Babylonians came to her,
and all the various foreign troops,
plus Libya
will fall by the sword along with them.
I will tend My flock and let them lie down.”
therefore this is what the Lord God says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off both man and animal from it. I will make it a wasteland; they will fall by the sword from Teman to Dedan.
“Because you maintained an ancient hatred
“Son of man, turn your face toward Sidon
Will your courage endure
“Will you pass judgment against them, will you pass judgment, son of man? Explain the detestable practices of their fathers to them.
fine embroidered linen from Egypt,
and served as your banner.
Your awning was of blue and purple fabric
from the coasts of Elishah.
“So this is what the Lord God says: I will release a windstorm in My wrath. Torrential rain will come in My anger, and hailstones will fall in destructive fury.
They will take your wealth as spoil and plunder your merchandise.
The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. They will know that I am Yahweh when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslave them.
the pine trees couldn’t compare with its branches,
nor could the plane trees match its boughs.
No tree in the garden of God
could compare with it in beauty.
“Son of man, I have broken the arm
This is what the Lord God says: “Because Moab and Seir said,
Didn’t you see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you proclaimed, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ even though I had not spoken?
The word of the Lord came to me:
So I prophesied as He commanded me; the breath
were within you, repairing your leaks.
came to
and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he raises his eyes to the idols, commits detestable acts,
“Say to the rebellious people,
“You are My flock, the human flock of My pasture, and I am your God.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “Because you have forgotten Me
“Son of man, turn your face toward Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all of Egypt.
But righteous men will judge them the way adulteresses
I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people.
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
They were scattered for lack of a shepherd;
You will allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners living among you,
“The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by
were in your army, serving as your warriors.
They hung shields and helmets in you;
they gave you splendor.
“Son of man, turn your face toward
When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will demonstrate My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.
so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed,
In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
On the same day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it.
This is what the Lord God says:
to the false gods in Memphis.
There will no longer be
a prince from the land of Egypt.
So I will instill fear in that land.
in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from following Me and no longer defile themselves
He follows My statutes and keeps My ordinances, acting faithfully. Such a person is righteous; he will certainly live.”
On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh,
Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. I will stop you from being a prostitute,
But I acted because of My name,
Berothah, and Sibraim (which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.
They will live there securely,
Now Ezekiel will be a sign for you.
Groan quietly; do not observe mourning rites for the dead.
Then I had concern for My holy name,
“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout
Mark out a road that the sword can take to Rabbah of the Ammonites
“This is to be the border of the land:
On the north side
One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife;
“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says to them: See, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
She lusted after the Assyrians:
Isn’t it enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Or isn’t it enough that you drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?
I will hand you over to them, and they will level your mounds and tear down your elevated places. They will strip off your clothes,
the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans; Pekod, Shoa, and Koa;
I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will shepherd them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the land.
Yes, to them you are like a singer of love songs who has a beautiful voice and plays skillfully on an instrument. They hear your words, but they don’t obey them.
and complete the days of purification. Then on the eighth day
“Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt and bring Egypt and the daughters of mighty nations down to the underworld,
I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and will not bring famine on you.
On that day I swore
I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains”—the declaration of the Lord God—“and every man’s sword will be against his brother.
He took one of the royal family
“As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Lord God says: Go and serve your idols, each of you. But afterward you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.
“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine,
When My sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, Yahweh, sanctify Israel.”
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and turn her into a bare rock.
You are to say: This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood
Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before you behaved more corruptly than they did.
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters,
“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads that the sword of Babylon’s king can take. Both of them should originate from the same land. And make a signpost at the fork in the road to each city.
The word of the Lord came to me:
“This is what the Lord God says: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter My sanctuary, not even a foreigner who is among the Israelites.
The best of all the firstfruits of every kind and contribution of every kind from all your gifts will belong to the priests.
“Now look, I clap My hands together against the dishonest profit you have made
She put it out on the bare rock;
she didn’t pour it on the ground
to cover it with dust.
then you will gnaw its broken pieces,
and tear your breasts.
For I have spoken.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
“This is what the Lord God says: Are you the one I spoke about in former times through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who for years prophesied in those times that I would bring you against them?
“Son of man, prophesy: This is what the Lord says! You are to proclaim:
and also polished.
“This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against the shepherds.
The recesses and their pilasters had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway.
I, Yahweh, will be their God, and My servant David
You are guilty of the blood you have shed,
“You must have honest scales, an honest dry measure,
I will fill you with people and animals,
“Be prepared and get yourself ready, you and all your company who have been mobilized around you; you will be their guard.
The sound of a carefree crowd was there. Drunkards
“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes:
You, all your troops, and the peoples who are with you will fall on the mountains of Israel. I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and to the wild animals.
and there will be anguish in Cush
when the slain fall in Egypt,
and its wealth is taken away,
and its foundations are torn down.
Damascus was also your trading partner because of your numerous products and your great wealth of every kind, trading in wine from Helbon and white wool.
will fall by the sword,
and those cities
At the sight of them
The word of the Lord came to me:
Then I said concerning this woman worn out by adultery: Will they now have illicit sex with her, even her?
They must wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists.
When she flaunted her promiscuity and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust just as I turned away from her sister.
“As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity because he practiced fraud, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.
and put it in a fertile field;
he set it like a willow,
a plant
The Lord said to me: “This gate will remain closed. It will not be opened, and no one will enter through it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered through it.
I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.
You
“Son of man, face the south and preach against it. Prophesy against the forest land in the Negev,
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among women.
However, this king revolted against him
and say:
She lay down among the lions;
she reared her cubs among the young lions.
when I break the yoke of Egypt there
and its proud strength
comes to an end in the city.
A cloud
and its villages will go into captivity.
‘Say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
“This is what the Lord God says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young, unblemished bull and purify the sanctuary.
I will make you an object of horror, and you will no longer exist.
There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood.
As the man went out east with a measuring line in his hand,
since I tried to purify you,
but you would not be purified from your uncleanness—
you will not be pure again
until I have satisfied My wrath on you.
so that it becomes hot and its copper glows.
Then its impurity will melt inside it;
its rust will be consumed.
This is what the Lord God says to Tyre: “Won’t the coasts and islands quake at the sound of your downfall,
In the twenty-seventh year in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
are appalled at you.
You have become an object of horror
and will never exist again.”
Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not lament or weep
“Son of man, because Tyre
so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from Me because of their idols.
Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers,
polished to flash like lightning!
Should we rejoice?
The scepter of My son,
the sword despises every tree.
Then the Spirit lifted me up
You sat on a luxurious couch with a table spread before it,
the stronghold of Egypt,
and will wipe out the crowds
and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows his trumpet
its height towered among the clouds.
So it was conspicuous for its height
as well as its many branches.
Then the man led me out by way of the north gate into the outer court.
“Who then are you like in glory and greatness among Eden’s trees? You also will be brought down to the underworld to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword.
He doesn’t oppress anyone, hold collateral, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
You will know that I am Yahweh, My people, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
Those who support Egypt will fall,
and its proud strength will collapse.
From Migdol to Syene
they will fall within it by the sword.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
She didn’t give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt,
carved with cherubim and palm trees.
Then the nations that remain around you will know that I, Yahweh, have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken and I will do it.
“As I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne,
Won’t it completely wither
when the east wind strikes it?
It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.”
because they rejected My ordinances, profaned My Sabbaths, and did not follow My statutes. For their hearts went after their idols.
My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill.
All the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones,
I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. The next morning I did just as I was commanded.
“I will restore their fortunes,
it was 875 feet
This is what the Lord God says: Because the enemy has said about you, ‘Good!
“Son of man, those who live in the
thrown to the ground,
and the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branches were torn off and dried up;
fire consumed them.
therefore I am about to expose Moab’s flank beginning with its
so the kingdom might be humble and not exalt itself
and has devoured its fruit,
so that it no longer has a strong branch,
a scepter for ruling.
This is a lament and should be used as a lament.”
“This is what the Lord God says: I caused grieving on the day the cedar went down to Sheol.
“Son of man, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says:
You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the earth’s princes: rams, lambs, male goats, and all the fattened bulls of Bashan.
The house of Israel will spend seven months burying them in order to cleanse the land.
“Because you said, ‘These two nations and two lands will be mine, and we will possess them’—though the Lord was there
This happened so that no trees planted beside water would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds,
and all the Sidonians
They went down in shame with the slain,
despite the terror their strength inspired.
They lie down uncircumcised
with those slain by the sword.
They bear their disgrace
with those who descend to the Pit.
Again he measured off a third of a mile
brought it to the land of merchants,
and set it in a city of traders.
Then the man brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. I looked, and the glory of the Lord filled His temple.
therefore, as I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“I will destine you for bloodshed, and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.
So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your indecent behavior.
and clap your hands together.
Let the sword strike two times, even three.
It is a sword for massacre,
a sword for great massacre—
it surrounds
You will know that I am Yahweh,
I will fill you with people, with the whole house of Israel in its entirety.
he returns collateral, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life
Ships of Tarshish
in the heart of the sea.
will know that I am Yahweh,
for they
to the house of Israel.
I will put tendons on you, make flesh grow on you, and cover you with skin. I will put breath in you so that you come to life. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
dressed in blue, governors and prefects, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on steeds.
Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to blow fire
I will turn you into a bare rock, and you will be a place to spread nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, Yahweh, have spoken.”
Men within you have sexual intercourse with their father’s wife and violate women during their menstrual impurity.
for it is against My people.
It is against all the princes of Israel!
They are given over to the sword with My people.
Therefore strike your thigh in grief.
and he became a young lion.
After he learned to tear prey,
he devoured people.
The dry measure
Then you will live in the land that I gave your fathers;
Those from Beth-togarmah
You are to give a bull from the herd
with great wings and thick plumage.
And this vine bent its roots toward him!
It stretched out its branches to him
from its planting bed,
so that he might water it.
Then, if anyone hears the sound of the trumpet but ignores the warning,
“This is the contribution you are to offer: Three quarts
But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.
The word of the Lord came to me:
You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened animals, but you do not tend the flock.
In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
In fact, it is put into the fire as fuel.
“All the people of the land must take part in this contribution for the prince in Israel.
you have increased your wealth,
but your heart has become proud
because of your wealth.”
“Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good,
On the east side it will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; you will measure from the northern border to the eastern sea.
“Next to the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, will be the portion you donate to the Lord, 8⅓ miles
He is not to marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin from the offspring of the house of Israel,
None of the sins he committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will certainly live.
They were haughty and did detestable things before Me, so I removed them when I saw this.
“Son of man, turn your face toward Mount Seir
with all her hordes around her grave.
All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—
those who went down to the underworld
who once spread their terror
in the land of the living.
They bear their disgrace
with those who descend to the Pit.
wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers, a depiction of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
the thresholds, the beveled windows,
And when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ then say: Because of the news that is coming.
though the father has done none of them. Indeed, when the son eats at the mountain shrines and defiles his neighbor’s wife,
at the hands of strangers.
For I have spoken.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
therefore I am about to give you to the people of the east as a possession. They will set up their encampments and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
In the twelfth year,
its thick rust will not come off.
Into the fire with its rust!
I will take My vengeance
Pharaoh will not help him with his great army and vast horde in battle,
It will never again be an object of trust
It is not for your sake that I will act”
Yet they had sex with her as one does with a prostitute. This is how they had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, those obscene women.
As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“because My flock has become prey and food for every wild animal since they lack a shepherd, for My shepherds do not search for My flock, and because the shepherds feed themselves rather than My flock,
Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you,
“This is what the Lord God says: If the prince gives a gift to each of his sons as their inheritance, it will belong to his sons. It will become their property by inheritance.
And what if the sword despises even the scepter?
The scepter will not continue.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
He measured the temple complex on all four sides. It had a wall all around it,
Pelusium will writhe in anguish,
Thebes will be breached,
and Memphis will face foes in broad daylight.
There will even be a city named Hamonah
to be grasped in the hand.
It is sharpened, and it is polished,
to be put in the hand of the slayer.
Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I am going to give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.
He led me all around them. There were a great many of them on the surface of the valley, and they were very dry.
The altar hearth
Therefore say to them: This is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with blood in it,
nested in its branches,
and all the animals of the field
gave birth beneath its boughs;
all the great nations lived in its shade.
Just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it became a desolation, so I will deal with you: you will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and so will all Edom in its entirety. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey for you. I will judge between one sheep and another.
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
The prince should enter from the outside by way of the gate’s portico and stand at the doorpost of the gate while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He will bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be closed until evening.
and they will be ashamed of all that they have done. Reveal
This is the law of the temple: all its surrounding territory on top of the mountain
This is what the Lord God says:
by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
In whatever tribe the foreigner lives, you will assign his inheritance there.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
the underground springs made it tall,
directing their rivers all around
the place where the tree was planted
and sending their channels
to all the trees of the field.
I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among
So the border will run from the sea to Hazar-enon at the border
The portico was 35 feet
For this is what the Lord God says: “Because you clapped your hands,
Say to it: This is what the Lord God says:
I will stretch out My hand against you
and make you a desolate waste.
Next to the territory of Gad toward the south side, the border will run from Tamar to the waters
Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Look! I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.
I will tend them with good pasture, and their grazing place will be on Israel’s lofty mountains. There they will lie down in a good grazing place; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
When they enter the gates of the inner court they must wear linen garments;
No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it.
were stationed on your walls all around,
and Gammadites were in your towers.
They hung their shields
they perfected your beauty.
Now when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, ‘Where is the coat of whitewash that you put on it?’
I will turn against them.
I will make Rabbah a pasture
and I will satisfy My wrath.
I, Yahweh, have spoken.”
“When the prince makes a freewill offering, whether a burnt offering or a fellowship offering as a freewill offering to the Lord,
The vision I saw
you and all the fish of your streams.
You will fall on the open ground
and will not be taken away
or gathered for burial.
I have given you
to the beasts of the earth
and the birds of the sky as food.
ruthless men from the nations.
They will draw their swords
against your magnificent wisdom
and will defile your splendor.
For this is what the Lord God says: “When I make you a ruined city like other deserted cities, when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
he was caught in their pit.
Then they led him away with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
“Tell them this: This is what the Lord God says: As surely as I live, those who are in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I have given to wild animals to be devoured, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.
Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I speak in My burning zeal
As silver is melted inside a furnace, so you will be melted inside the city. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out My wrath on you.”
and make the fish of your streams
cling to your scales.
I will haul you up
from the middle of your Nile,
and all the fish of your streams
will cling to your scales.
I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
They were your merchants in choice garments, cloaks of blue and embroidered materials, and multicolored carpets,
“You must take some of its blood and apply it to the four horns
So I poured out My wrath
and all the trees of Eden,
which were in God’s garden, envied it.
“The remaining area, 1⅔ of a mile
onto the high seas,
but the east wind has shattered you
in the heart of the sea.
and bloodshed in her streets;
the slain will fall within her,
while the sword is against her
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
Yet when it comes
No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.
Yes, it is coming, and it will happen.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “This is the day I have spoken about.
in a good field by abundant waters
in order to produce branches,
bear fruit, and become a splendid vine.
For this is what the Lord God says:
will come against you!
and sell the land into the hands of evil men.
I will bring desolation
on the land and everything in it
by the hands of foreigners.
I, Yahweh, have spoken.
On that day, messengers will go out from Me in ships
and fill the valleys with your carcass.
The land of Egypt will be a desolate ruin.
Even when it was whole it could not be made into a useful object. How much less can it ever be made into anything useful when the fire has devoured it and it is charred!
Then I said, “Oh, Lord God, they are saying of me, ‘Isn’t he just posing riddles?’”
At My table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and all the warriors.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God.
When they pass through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker next to it until the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
Then join them together into a single stick so that they become one in your hand.
You will inherit it in equal portions, since I swore
The prince must not take any of the people’s inheritance, evicting them from their property.
He spoke to me: “Son of man, look with your eyes, listen with your ears,
They will know that I am Yahweh their God when I regather them to their own land after having exiled them among the nations. I will leave none of them behind.
Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I swear
therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become plunder
He asked me, “Do you see this, son of man?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.
Therefore this is what the Lord God says:
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:
I Myself will make the pile of kindling large.
you have acquired wealth for yourself.
You have acquired gold and silver
for your treasuries.
Yet they will occupy My sanctuary, serving as guards at the temple gates
it
“They are the ones who may enter My sanctuary
Yet you say, ‘The Lord’s way isn’t fair.’ I will judge each of you according to his ways, house of Israel.”
your sailors and captains,
those who repair your leaks,
those who barter for your goods,
and all the warriors within you,
with all the other people on board,
sink into the heart of the sea
on the day of your downfall.
and her company is all around her burial place.
All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—
those who once spread terror
in the land of the living.
at all their gates,
so that their hearts may melt
and many may stumble.
Yes! It is ready to flash like lightning;
it is drawn
and destroyed their cities.
The land and everything in it shuddered
at the sound of his roaring.
They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it down from the forests, for they will use the weapons to make fires. They will take the loot from those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them.”
When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the countries of their enemies, I will demonstrate My holiness through them in the sight of many nations.
Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?
in the land of the living,
so Pharaoh and all his hordes
will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised,
with those slain by the sword.”
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
with all their hordes.
Their graves are all around them.
All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
although their terror was once spread
in the land of the living.
I have given him the land of Egypt as the pay he labored for, since they worked for Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
When I had returned, I saw a very large number of trees along both sides of the riverbank.
On the west side the Mediterranean Sea will be the border, from the southern border up to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This will be the western side.
The people of the land will also bow in worship before the Lord at the entrance of that gate on the Sabbaths and New Moons.
The altar was
While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from the temple.
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.
therefore I am about to stretch out My hand against you
I will give it along with Ammon to the people of the east as a possession, so that Ammon will not be remembered among the nations.
“When the sticks you have written on are in your hand and in full view of the people,
Since he heard the sound of the trumpet but ignored the warning, his blood is on his own hands.
I will put an end to the noise of your songs,
I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword
A sword is appointed!
They drag her and all her hordes away.
“Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I am going to bring a sword
and you will die a violent death
in the heart of the sea.
I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you among the countries;
you splintered,
when they leaned on you,
you shattered and made all their hips unsteady.
You must do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for everyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance.
Then he brought me into the outer court,
and their kings will shudder with fear because of you
when I brandish My sword in front of them.
On the day of your downfall
each of them will tremble
every moment